Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-22
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Delegates to the national editorial con.
vention at Denver in September next: B.
=. Herbert, Capt. Castle, T. NJ Newson,
Aivah Eastman, William Kinds, G. w
Benedict, 81. G. Day, Capt Mofiett, A. N.
Dare, b. 0. Bassford, J. p. aHeatwoIe, w.
II. Mitchell, D. P. R. Strong, J. C. Wise.
Alternates-L. Osborne, D. C. Light,
'ourne, c.. II. Lineau, Frank Simmons,
wing Todd, A. P. Miller, Max Nichols, 81.
Il. ). Paswell, J. G. Hamlin, J. T. Murphy,
b. W. Randall, l.. S. Frost, D. Ramaley,
R. c. Mitchell, E. H. Dearth.
Jake Sharp. the Great Boodler Gets Four Years.
In New York, the great bride giver was
sentenced to four years in prison and
fine OF five thousand dollars. Judge Bar.
rett, in pronouncing sentence, said:
He had never performed SO delicate
task in his whole professional career. He
had received many letters from many peo-
ple pleading mercy and otherwise, but
court was not appointed to be merciful
any more than was dictated by the laws OF
Justice. Tho defendant herein, asking for
mercy, can give nothing as a plea for Glenn
ency but age and sickness. On the merits
1t is absurd to state that he was not guilty
OF giving the brides, as he was unn1ist taxa.
bly, the leader OF the whole affair. Wehave
not here, as in the case of the aldermen,
any attempt to prove the defendant good
character. The crime itself was an enor.
nous one-the raising OF half a million OF
dollars to corrupt half a. legislature
Judge Barrett reviewed the corrupt action
OF the defendant in forming bogus com.
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railway, OF which he was director,
and alluded to the defendants
securing 81, 900, 900 OF profit as stock lar.
ceny, for which he could have been indict.
ed just as well as for bribery. What is
there to excite pity or mercy except the
age and i'll health of the prisoner and the
mourning condition of his family? With
over $1,000, o0c in his pocket he clamors
for mercy without offering to pay back
penny Of the amount stolen, so that,
should he die in prison, his family has
vast fortune to fail back upon. The legis.
lature does not allow us to 90 below the
minimum penalty in such grave offense
as the present is. All things have been
considered, and the Judgment OF this court
is that the prisoner be confined four years
at hard labor and that he pay Il fine OF
$4,000.
Miss Winnaretta Singer, daughter of the
American sewing machine inventor, has
81, 5000 in her own right, and is to
marry Prince de Scey- Montbellard. Her
mother married duke after Isaac Singers
death.
Railroad workmen and Youngstown, O.,
police have a pitched battle for contest OF
a railroad track.
Ex-Attorney General MarVeagh and
family will spend the summer in England.
Sir John Pope Henessey has been rein
stated as governor general OF Mauritus.
A Hamburg correspondent telegra phs
that rumor is current that Herr Miguel
is likely to succeed Bismarck as minister
OF commerce.
At Montreal, McDougal, Logic g. Co.,
oil and paint manufacturers, have failed.
Direct liabilities, $25O,0O0.
Secretary Lamar has sustained the com.
missioner in his refusal to make for Hol-
land survey OF dry lake bed in sec.
tions 10 and 80, township As, range 80,
The secretary says: It is the policy OF the
department since 1877 to refuse to survey
meandered lake beds. Beside, he is not
satisfied that the lake bed does not iaure
to the holders OF the adjoining tract by the
principle OF accretion.
A special from Lexington, Miss, to the n.
0. Picayune, says: r. B. Chatham, indie
pendent and Republican candidate for the
legislature, shot and killed John s. Har-
kins, associate editor of the Lexington
Bulletin. Harkins' father is one of the
Democratic nominees for the legislature.
Chatham and young Harl<ins had been
discussing politics and drinking beer freely
during the day up to the time the dispute
arose.
The comptroller OF the currency author
lied the Third National Bank OF Piqua,
O., to begin business with capital OF
100000.
The costoms receipts during the fiscal
year just closed were $145, 968 SIS, de-
rived from $500, 1913, 745 imported goods.
That resents average taxation on imports
OF 4S per cent.
Joseph G. Kennedy, once superintendent
of the sencus, is murdered in Washington.
Secretary Lamar's daughter JEANNE is
going to marry her cousin, W. H. Lamar,
a young lawyer OF Washington.
Even Mr.. Manning's large estimate of in.
ternal revenue for the fiscal year just
closed fell short OF the reality. His CAL
culatlon was an increase OF SO, 500, 900.
The actual increase was $34, 941, 166.89.
Tie customs revenue increased $24, $780,.
600, or 1875 per cent, and internal reve-
nue. increased 2 per cent, while the
amount received in excess OF current ex-
penditures was $102, S64, 7O3.6
q. s. Grant post, No. 1927, G. A. R., OF
Brooklyn has passed resolutions denounc.
ing the recent attacks upon the order as
insults to the living and ISLANDERS upon
our dead. The resolutions also declare
that the Grand Army men appeal to the
loyal press OF the country without regard
to partisan afiliation.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says that from figures given out Lately by
Powderly it is ascertained that the men,
bership OF the order OF the Knights OF
Labor has fallen from 1000, 900 to less
than 100000 within the last fourteen
months. The loss has been steady and on
the increase.
The inspector who had investigated the
accounts of William Cannon, postmaster
at Fort Abraham Lincoln, Oak, who late
ly committed suicide. found that by false
returns OF Cancelled. stamps Cannon had
overdrawn in salary IS, 055. The post
master general, under the act OF June II,
1878, made an order requesting the sixth
auditor to readiust the compensation OF
Cannon. The postoffice department says
that it is making a thorough investigation
OF the acts OF postmasters all over the
country. It intimates that there are 9TH
er cases similar to that of Cannon.
Sir Wilfred Lawson presided over the meet
ing of the international arbitration as
ISOLATION in London. The secretary's re.
port referred at length to the cooperation
Of Q similar association in America and
expressed hope for the formation OF q
joint commission to consider the advisable.
ity Of creating an Anglo American arbitra-
ton tribunal. David Dudley Field, in
moving approval Ut q petition to parlia.
ment in favor Of the creation of such q
tribunal expressed hearty sympathy with
the cause. .- 49,.
Edward Garage, the aeronaut killed by
falling from his balloon on the Fourth at